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🇳🇪Niger's New Uranium Posture Paris apparently hears better from the sands of Arlit than from Niamey 🌐 In response to the recent complaints from the French media about the sale of 1,000 tons of uranium by Niger to Russia, Abdourahamane Tiani outlined to Paris and the world Niger's new approach to its uranium wealth. 🔸 During a visit to the Agadez region, Niger’s president Abdourahamane Tiani visited the SOMAÏR uranium site near Arlit, four months after the company was nationalized from the French company Orano. ⏩ Although without open reference to the cries of the Western media, the president's words contained an outline of the country's reviewed approach to nuclear fuel production and cooperation with the French: 🔸 Niger considers the nationalization of the SOMAÏR site irreversible; 🔸 The state is going to ensure the continuation of normal work at the site (which would cost some $88.6 million); 🔸 Niger is going to commercialize its yellowcake production. 🔸 The latter unequivocally means that Niger from now reasserts its right to choose partners in its uranium industry, regardless of what Paris and Orano may thinks. For decades, French companies drew fuel for European reactors from Arlit while Niger's soil accumulated radioactive waste. The French presence had not translated into any domestic nuclear industry built on its own ore. Devils Below